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November 16, 1952

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Headlines from November 16, 1952

Reading Adventures Still Top Them All; Reading Adventures Top Them All

By D. W. Brogan

IT is seventy years or so since a stepfather decided to amuse his precocious stepson (an American child need I say?) by writing for him an adventure story. He also hoped to make a little money and his hopes have been justified. But as some preliminary verses make plain, Robert Louis Stevenson was not at all certain, even in that remote day, that the old magic would work: pirates, buried gold, castaways.

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AD SEEN OPENING NEW FINANCING ERA; Prospect Stems From S. E. C. Authorization of Screening Process in Stock Sales TEST MADE LAST WEEK Used by Eastman, Dillon & Co. in Offering the $3,500,000 Suburban Propane Issue New Era in Financing Is Seen Opened By S. E. C. Order for Screening Offerings

By Paul Heffernan

New pre-offering 'identifying statements' discussed; Eastman, Dillon use noted; illus; full disclosure sees of '33 Securities Act cited; prospectus and regis simplification urged

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Notable Births

Shigeru Miyamoto

1952Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer[†]

Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he has served as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002. Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential designers in video games, he is the creator of some of the most acclaimed and best-selling game franchises of all time, including Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox and Pikmin. More than 1 billion copies of games featuring franchises created by Miyamoto have been sold.

Historical Context for November 16, 1952

In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]